Improved funnel



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIC;

OHAS. JONES, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELE AND CHARLESHODGETTS, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVED FUNNEL.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 5 1,515, dated December12, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES J oNEs, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kingsand State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Funnel 5 and Ido hereby declare that the following` is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to makeand use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is an externalview of my invention Fig. 2, a View of the piece of sheet metal cut outto form the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

This invention relates to an improved funnel of that class which areprovided with corrugated or iluted ends or nozzles to admit of theescape of air from the vessel while being filled by means of the funnel.

The ordinary funnels of this class have hitherto been made of twoseparate parts, the end or nozzle being made separate and corrugated,and then attached to the body or main portion, which is smooth.

My invention consists in constructing the funnel of one piece of metal,cut out in the form of a segment, its ends soldered together, and thenswaged by means of dies into proper form, and corrugated at the sametime.

A, Fig. 2, represents a piece of sheet metal outoutin the form ofasegmentof acircle. The

ends of this piece of metal, after being bent in conical form, aresoldered together, and it is then, by means of suitable dies, swaged orstruck up in the desired form of the funnel, the dies being soconstructed as to flute or corrugate the funnel longitudinally, as shownat a in Fig. 1, and to strike up a flange at the large end ot' thefunnel, to receive the wire which forms a rim, bx.

Thus by this simple mode of manufacture I avoid all soldering, exceptthat by which the edges or ends of the metal strip of which the funnelis made are connected together, and consequently economize in themanufacture of the funnel, and at the same time obtain a more durablearticle than when made of two separate parts, or when the nozzle b andbody c are made separately and then connected together, besides, a morechaste and neat funnel is obtained.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A funnel struckup in dies from a single piece of metal, and having a plain marginalsurface adjoining the upper edge, and f lutes or corrugations increasingin depth from the top downward, as herein described.

CHARLES JONES.

Witnesses:

M. AHEAENE, J r., M. M. LIVINGSTON.

